The voice of families with firsthand experience is all over this. Please spread and use this tool, it’s written from lived experience and will help improve the health and health care of people in prison. www.prisonadvice.org.uk/get-help/hea.... #publichealth

Paracetamol remains an important option to treat pain or fever in pregnant women. Following rigorous assessment of the available scientific data, we find no evidence that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism in children. Read more 👉 www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/use-...

#Vaccines have been the cornerstone of #PublicHealth efforts for decades, protecting us from infectious diseases & paving the way for healthier, more prosperous societies. #Immunisation is a safe and cost-effective way to protect people – especially infants & young children. #VaccinesWork

Statement from the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency "MHRA confirms taking paracetamol during pregnancy remains safe and there is no evidence it causes autism in children" www.gov.uk/government/n...

En route to Public Health Wales AGM in Carmarthen. A tree precariously near line delayed us. Sorted. GWR train manager from Cardiff and Transport for Wales swansea staff unbelievably helpful. Train for Carmarthen/Fishguard rolls calmly into swansea only 1 minute late. And we’re off. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻love it

Patients who continue to struggle with fatigue and brain fog after recovering from COVID-19 may have lingering neuroinflammation triggered by the virus. healthimaging.com/topics/clini...

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Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

John C. Turner pulls no punches 😂

A book for our times. As Lyse Doucet says quoted in intro to this “If you don’t understand religion, including the abuse of religion, you don’t understand what is happening in our world.” Or how to respond. books.google.co.uk/books/about/...

Though it’s traumatic for me to bring this up, I was targeted by a group allied with Turning Point USA in 2018, with the help of Tucker Carlson on Fox. My home address circulated online and I got death threats. 1/

Andrew Marr writing in this week’s @newstatesman.com

📢 Join us for the next ECDC Lighthouse webinar “The public as partners: unlocking the potential of citizen science in disease prevention and control”. What happens when science opens its doors to the public? 🗓️ Monday 22/09/2025 🕕 13.00-14.00 CET 💻 Online #ECDCLighthouse

This article wasn’t about them, but it shows how people faked concern of social justice to let it rip. sciencebasedmedicine.org/wokewashing/

15th November - British Psychological Society Wales is holding a Festival of #Psychology and #PublicHealth Mind and Nation will bring people together to share the contribution of psychology to improving and protecting the health of the People of Wales. www.bps.org.uk/event/bps-we...

Im two chapters into Harry Tanner’s first book and its brilliant . @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social His writng sweeps you up and carries you. Highly recommend www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-thi...

Good piece about St George by a historian in The Tablet . A saint of Middle Eastern origin brought to England by foreign missionaries and revered by many Muslims not just Christians….

“That’s how it starts. Not with a rejection of science, but with a crack in the trust.” This should be mandatory reading for everyone in public health and healthcare. macleans.ca/longforms/co...

A lot of unevidenced claims about vaccines are getting picked up and amplified on X by journalists who should probably know better. So if your aim is to use social media to reduce impact of these claims, then it does feel like you should be tackling the flawed-claim-to-media-uptake step on X...

A reminder that you’ll get an alert at 3pm today to test the UK national emergency alert system. If you have a phone you need to keep concealed (eg because of abuse or violence) here’s how to opt out of the alerts www.gov.uk/alerts/optin...

Given importance of health to the voting public, it seems politically naive of Nigel Farage and Reform to have their health policy so closely tied to Dr Aseem Malhotra, whose speech today confirms his switch from once respected clinician to conspiracy theorist quack: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Angela Rayner got hounded for a housing mix-up. Farage hides income through companies and trusts to dodge tax. One rule for the loudest man in politics. Another for everyone else. Families pay their share. Nigel doesn’t. That’s the real scandal.

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If you’re wondering how much of what RFK Jr said yesterday about vaccines was true—almost none of it was. @FullerLab_UW is one of the most accomplished vaccinologists out there and her article is required reading to separate truth from falsehoods. theconversation.com/how-rfk-jr-s...

I refuse to submit to the philosophy that, because people threaten me, because they make my life hard, because I disagree, they deserve my cruelty in return. No matter how scared I feel, I will not hand them a win by agreeing with them about the use of force.

On Thursday Senators grilled Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., about vaccines and turmoil at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Health experts responded to Kennedy’s claims on social media in disbelief and anger

After more than 100 days in office, those in charge of Reform-led councils are facing a political reality check. @zoecrowther.bsky.social and I examine how the party’s bold campaign promises are standing up in the face of financial pressures www.politicshome.com/news/article...

A bizarre dogma has emerged among the anti-mRNA crowd that the only data we have on vaccines is from the original trial papers, rather than the HUGE volume of studies that came out subsequently...

Speaking as someone who studied and taught at US universities for over a decade, that KB has been telling this story for so long, without anyone in the UK previously questioning it is kind of amazing. It reflects total credulity about how the US works from the Spectator/Ashcroft etc.

... then an avalanche showing effectiveness vs hospitalisation, vs critical care, vs death, for subgroups, different variants, different vaccines, over time. These are UK only - knock yourself out. That first study was just designed to check it worked safely vs cases. www.gov.uk/guidance/mon...

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

One of the things I like about reading history is how it teaches us just how Britain has always been multicultural. www.ancient-origins.net/weird-facts/... www.cambridge.org/core/books/a... academic.oup.com/book/59291 warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cla...

Sometimes overhearing conversations in the coffee room after mass can give you food for thought for days. Today… "You shall not wrong a foreigner or oppress them, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt". (Exodus 22:21):

A good piece from Scientific American last year on how many lives #vaccines have saved worldwide. #vaccineswork. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

This October, I’m riding solo by motorbike from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi - nearly 2,000km - in memory of Joshua & to raise funds for the brilliant charity @babylifeline who do amazing work to support safer maternity care. www.gofundme.com/f/vietnam-so...

This. Falling vaccine uptake is a problem over a decade in the making. It's not a COVID-19 thing, (though that did make things worse). Access, funding, structures, oversight issues all involved and contributing to the problem.

📢 @jdportes.bsky.social "We have yet to hear a Cabinet Minister point out that migrants now fill 1/5 jobs in the UK, that they are more likely to be employed & less likely to claim benefits. Diversity should be our greatest strength, and it is that argument that anti-immigration zealots fear most."

The Child Health Network is holding a webinar on what everyone in the NHS can do to improve the health of our children. Date and time: Tue, Sep 23, 2025 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM BT Book your place here lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/mnjrw6d

Even after the CDC shooting, immature disinformation government actors from Kennedy to Bhattacharya do what they do best- spread rage and doubt to inflame the mob against doctors who work in hospitals and clinics. My latest. sciencebasedmedicine.org/pickledbrain...

A picture which appears to show European leaders sitting on chairs in a White House corridor waiting to speak to Donald Trump has been shared widely. But this image isn’t real - there are a number of clues that it was created using AI.

‘An existential threat’: US health workers call Robert F Kennedy Jr a risk to public health www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New issue alert! 📢 Professor Chris van Tulleken has commissioned articles on #commercialdeterminants and #conflictsofinterest in public health and policy Stay tuned for insightful discussions and expert perspectives 👇 #CDoH #COI www.sciencedirect.co...#commercialdeterminants

Good tread from Hugh setting out the arguments and evidence to kill the "it'd all be better if it were a social insurance model" policy zombie idea (Again)

"I was prescribed exercise classes for arthritis – I no longer need my walking stick" Mary Howells describes her experience of Wales’ National Exercise Referral Scheme “I’m happy, I’ve been able to go on holidays to see my family. I’m living proof that it works.” cavuhb.nhs.wales/news/latest-...

🚨My TOP 10 concerns with misinformation: #1: Increasingly linked to political identity! #2: Rising distrust driven BY misinformation #3: Misinformation about misinformation New article: Before You Share That Health Tip, Read This thewalrus.ca/before-you-s... via @thewalrus.ca

Junk food ad ban delay harms health www.lgcplus.com/services/hea... hard to put it any other way TBH .....

🎰 Tackling Gambling-Related Harm in Wales Welsh Government has issued a ministerial statement on introducing a statutory levy on gambling operators to reduce gambling-related harms. www.gov.wales/written-stat...